...ravels in the East, and who told us many pleasant stories of Lady Hester Stanhope, etc. In the evening several of the Aikin family came in, and I confess I looked with some interest on the Charles of Mrs. Barbauld 's Evenings at Home, though he came with a wig and two daughters, one of whom has made him already a grandfather. July 21.—At half past 4 I returned to the House of Commons, to hear the gre...